Quotes about Reflection

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual.

I confess that I have been as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

Sometimes the chords were sonorous and melancholy. Occasionally they were fantastic and cheerful. Clearly they reflected the thoughts which possessed him

There lies the image of our past and of our future, cried Alleyne, as they rode on upon their way. Now, which is better, to till God's earth, to have happy faces round one's knee, and to love and be loved, or to sit forever moaning over one's own soul, like a mother over a sick babe?

The furrows upon his brow had been cut a little deeper by Time's chisel.

I have hardly had time to think over all that you have told me. It's a big thing for a man to have to understand and to decide at one sitting. I should like to have a quiet hour by myself to make up my mind.

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one?

To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

Why is it that, in spite of all the mirrors in the world, no one really knows what he looks like?

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.